Toothpaste from a tube being applied to a toothbrush
Thegreenj - Own work
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Commentary
Saturday, June 15, 2019
So I squeezed out that last bit of toothpaste.
Like giving that tube an extra day of life.
That is, if you’re like me: someone who sees time passing from his bathroom.
Not measuring by number of days but by how many tubes of toothpaste.
Or razor blades: mine has two more days eft and then another blade.
That not nearly so bad as when it’s time to buy another entire large plastic-encased cardboard package of 14 blades for $$44.00.
Not the money I’m counting, not primarily, but 14 times 7 is 98 days.
Over three months.
Now that’s a measure of significance.
More important than a tank of gas, which I need.
Although only half as important as my teeth-cleaning, which is every six months, and is coming up on Monday.
Who needs a calendar to tell us of time’s march?
But we can slow it down.
Just squeeze one more use from that toothpaste tube.
It’s finally a really warm day in Boston.
Let’s permit that joy to add to our resolve to enjoy every day to its fullest, weather notwithstanding.
The hours are ticking away and if we don’t make the most of our time another day will soon click past.
Unnoticed.
Unappreciated.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Postings Count, Weather Brief, and Dinner
Saturday, June 15, 2019
Our 435th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 435 posts we’re at the 8.70 percentile of our commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Time is 4.01am.
On Saturday, Boston will get a taste of summer with temperatures of a high of 84* and a feels-like of 88* under partly sunny skies.
Dinner Friday was at Sakura Bana reading from my new Nook.
Elegant!
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Question of the Day:
Saturday, June 15, 2019
What is a tablet computer?
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Chuckle of the Day:
Saturday, June 15, 2019
A little girl walks into a pet shop and asks in the sweetest little lisp, "Excuthe me, mithter, do you keep widdle wabbits?"
As the shopkeeper's heart melts, he drops to one knee, "Do you want a widdle white wabby or a thoft and fuwwy back wabby or maybe one like that cute widdle bwown wabby over there?"
The little girl leans forward, smiles, and quietly says, “I don't fink my pet python weally gives a thit.”
Light Phase Asian Rock Python (Python molurus molurus) at San Diego Zoo, USA
Tigerpython - Own work
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Kali’s Musings
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Contact me at domcapossela@hotmail.com
Saturday, June 15, 2019
Kali L shares some memories and motivations with us:
Life is a beautiful and terrifying masterpiece. If we look at the tapestry and each strand we weave something magical happens.
The beauty of being 33 is that I can see so many things from this peak and I can look on them with deep joy and love. I can greet them with gratitude.
It was 2005 and I was finishing my freshman year at Salve when a friend of mine named Paula told me of the great poet Peter. She told me I had to know him and that he would be important to my work. I walked all the way across campus in my Gap skirt and white t-shirt. I looked like a run of the mill young woman who candy striped on occasion. Peter the well-traveled, knew countless languages to communicate in, took my meeting. He told me I had to go to The Frost Place to study poetry and then we'd begin our journey of study together. I hated The Frost Place. I hated it so much I fled from the program early. I waltzed into his office that Fall embarrassed to tell him I had failed. He would teach me my first lesson. He would tell me that "sometimes it takes more courage to leave than it does to stay." Years later, I have rewritten that to be "sometimes it takes more courage to stay and see something through." There is a gift in each of these lessons the first draft and the re-write.
I suppose, if I step back, and let things be, it begins to make sense: We can only begin to understand, perhaps even to gain wisdom, by looking back over the places we have known and the paths we have followed.
I followed Peter. I took every class I could. We challenged the registrars office. Together, we were brave. Together, we annoyed a lot of people with our refusal to follow the system. He told me I had to go to graduate school. Peter set me on a path I can now look back on with pride. Our trend of bucking the system would continue with a trip to Italy I could use as graduate school credits. I live off of those memories. My dream of Italy started with my 1st grade teacher and a single post card; Peter would make it real.
Peter died on a Friday morning in August at a time years earlier we would have had our private course in poetry. I suppose it was fitting that he died on a street and on a day at a time I would have been walking to get to him. Three things have anchored my life: reading, writing, and running. I will never forget Peter and I will never forget the moment in The Divine Comedy when we find out that love moves the sun and the other stars. What that meant to me then was love of oneself-it can move everything. And what it means now is love of oneself and acceptance of love from others. The only journey is the one of love.
In the end it's about love, always.
Web Meister responds: Lovely. Moving.
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Answer to the Question of the Day
Saturday, June 15, 2019
What is a tablet computer?
A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single thin, flat package.
Tablets, being computers, do what other personal computers do, but lack some input/output (I/O) abilities that others have.
Modern tablets largely resemble modern smartphones, the only differences being that tablets are relatively larger than smartphones, with screens 7 inches (18 cm) or larger, measured diagonally, and may not support access to a cellular network.
The touchscreen display is operated by gestures executed by finger or digital pen (stylus), instead of the mouse, trackpad, and keyboard of larger computers.
Portable computers can be classified according to the presence and appearance of physical keyboards.
Two species of tablet, the slate and booklet, do not have physical keyboards and usually accept text and other input by use of a virtual keyboard shown on their touchscreen displays.
To compensate for their lack of a physical keyboard, most tablets can connect to independent physical keyboards by wireless Bluetooth or USB; 2-in-1 PCs have keyboards, distinct from tablets.
The form of the tablet was conceptualized in the middle of the 20th century (Stanley Kubrick depicted fictional tablets in the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey) and prototyped and developed in the last two decades of that century. In 2010, Apple released the iPad, the first mass-market tablet to achieve widespread popularity.
Thereafter tablets rapidly rose in ubiquity and soon became a large product category used for personal, educational and workplace applications, with sales stabilizing in the mid-2010s.
I keep my own calendar.
But for us younger people, it doesn’t seem important.
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Good Morning on this Saturday, the fifteenth day of June, 2019
We posted a photo of a tube of toothpaste as a measure of time passing and our commentary talks about the use of toiletries to remind us of the importance of time passing, an aid to our appreciation of what we do each day.
We added the Boston weather report and the ticking calendar, and tracked the number of our postings.
We posted a piece from Kali L regarding a journey of love.
And we thumbnailed a description of tablet computers.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.